I am live blogging from Finovate Startup in San Francisco. Jim Bruene and his team at NetBanker have gathered 40 startups, rebrandings, and company debuts in online banking and finance. Each participant has a brief 5 minutes to demo their product so I’ll be typing as...
I am live blogging from Finovate Startup in San Francisco. Jim Bruene and his team at NetBanker have gathered 40 startups, rebrandings, and company debuts in online banking and finance. Each participant has a brief 5 minutes to demo their product so I’ll be typing as...
Today's New York Times features an article on electronic tolls (e.g. EZPass along the East Coast, FastTrak in the SF Bay Area). An economist determined that on average tolls increase 30% after electronic toll payment is installed. This should be no surprise to...
This week The Economist magazine discusses the PalPal vs. Google Checkout rivalry. They admire PayPal's market share (more accounts than American Express), efforts to streamline merchant integration (down to days from weeks), low fraud rates, and constant...
Business Week online has a slide show featuring the most critical computer systems in the world. The focus is the systems that we rely on for day-to-day life - as individuals and businesses. ...the buzz of daily life is ever more punctuated by contact with computers...
A recent poll by the research firm Harris Interactive indicates that the number of bills paid online is rapidly approaching the number paid by check: Other = cash, debit cards, or other payment methods.Source: Harris Interactive data (quoted in The New York...
Yesterday the BBC News website shut down it's e-commerce index. Not because e-commerce is irrelevant, but because all commerce is now e-commerce:Today, the word "e-commerce" itself sounds slightly outdated - circa 1999.Our readers seem to agree. Once...
